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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this video, meet husband and father Andy McDowell who was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease at the age of 43. Accompany him as he explores Deep Brain Stimulation as a potential treatment and copes with his illness that affects every aspect of his life.
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Joseph is a young man with cerebral palsy who knows he absolutely doesn't want pity sex, and has always looked down on his best mate for sleeping around. But Joseph has never really had the opportunity, until now. His first sexual experience makes him question his views.
Language
English
Description
This program takes a detailed look at a condition that can re-disable survivors of polio later in life: post-polio syndrome. Two case studies shed light on its symptoms, effects, and treatment. Three additional segments focus on Mike Nemesvary, the first quadriplegic to drive around the world unassisted; the Adult Connections in Education initiative at the University of Prince Edward Island, which offers people with developmental disabilities the...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2009
Language
English
Description
A Place for All: Faith and Community for Persons with Disabilities explores the courageous stories of persons with disabilities as they succeed in making their faith communities truly inclusive. It features people such as Rabbi Darby Jared Leigh, one of the handful of deaf rabbis in the world; members of ELCA's DAYLE program, where definitely abled youth unite at the 40,000 strong triennial Evangelical Lutheran youth gathering; 5 year-old Max Rubin,...
7) Rules
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Description
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
11) Spirits among us
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Scooter has been wheelchair bound ever since the accident that took her mother's life. Carrying on her mother's ghost hunting work, Scooter and her best friend Harlan create a YouTube show called Spirits Among Us. Wanting to get a message from her mother before she passes over, Scooter buys a special ghost hunting camera and places it in her family's cemetery. But, when a string of robberies frighten the locals, will the camera capture more than a...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
With the Tokyo Paralympic Games approaching, Panorama investigates the sport's classification system. Designed to make competition between athletes with different disabilities fair, it is accused of being flawed, easily manipulated, and lacking credibility. Former Paralympic athlete and coach Richie Powell says para-sport saved his life after he was injured in a motor cycle accident, but he retired as a wheelchair racer, disillusioned with a classification...
13) My buddy
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
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Description
A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012], c2012
Language
English
Description
Job interviews are stressful for everybody, and maybe even more so for people with disabilities. But they don't have to be. This video shows how to turn an interview into a self-selling opportunity that focuses on what a disabled candidate can do, no matter how obvious his or her physical limitations might be. Offering detailed pointers on preparing for an interview, including ways to project confidence and a positive attitude, the program also suggests...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
"Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with...
Series
American Masters volume 0
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind, used her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities and people living in poverty. This program examines the complex life and legacy of this author, advocate and human rights pioneer.
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